Angela is Founder and Managing Partner at Aclivity, LLC, the Denver-based executive recruiting, staffing, and consulting firm. She also is a Mindset of Leadership Coach and Trainer. A lifetime Girl Scouts USA member, Angela is Treasurer for the Girl Scouts of Colorado Board of Directors. Since 2013, Angela has helped the University of Colorado plan and develop curricula and programs as a Community Member of the University of Colorado Business School Accounting Advisory Council. She is currently helping to develop its Controllership and Communications-related curriculum. In 2018, Angela was one of the founding members of HomeStretch Moms, an alliance with Channel Mom and the Denver Rescue Mission dedicated to mentoring single mothers. She first volunteered with the COCPA as a University of Colorado Denver student member. She founded the COCPA CFO/Controllers Roundtable in 2005; previously chaired the COCPA Women in the Workplace Committee; and served on the Strategic Planning Committee.

Diego is an audit senior manager with the Big Four firm EY and has worked with a variety of clients in various industries, including asset management, technology, health insurance, energy, media and entertainment, manufacturing, consumer products/retail, and employee benefit plans. He serves as a liaison for the office’s diversity and inclusiveness professional networks and facilitates technical and soft skill trainings, notably as a consistent “Top Tier Facilitator” within the firm’s Audit Academy. Diego’s passions include a focus on educational access and mentoring, both with EY and in the community. He has volunteered with Junior Achievement, the Denver Scholarship Foundation, Greenhouse Scholars, and Strive Prep as well. He is a former member of the ALPFA Denver Chapter Board of directors and a former member of the AICPA CPA Board of Examiners. Before joining the COCPA Board of Directors, Diego served on the Educational Foundation of the COCPA, including a term as president.

Amy is an advisor with RubinBrown Advisors, Denver, who enjoys helping guide clients through the important financial stages in life. With stints as a financial analyst, sole practitioner, and wealth advisor under her belt, Amy brings diverse insights from the individual, corporate, and small business perspectives. She previously served on the Financial Literacy Committee and was one of the original members of the COCPA task force that implemented the AICPA Feed the Pig financial literacy campaign in Colorado. Amy’s passion for eldercare inspired her to earn the Certified Senior Advisor credential, and she has written several articles on various issues that impact the journey of growing older. She previously served on the CPE Board and as a trustee for the Educational Foundation of the COCPA. These days, you will find her working on her Certified Financial Planning designation.

Randy is partner-in-charge of the firm’s Northern Colorado office. He specializes in auditing and advising governmental and nonprofit organizations, as well as privately held and publicly traded companies in various industries, including construction and technology. A former member of the AICPA’s Government Audit Quality Center Executive Committee and the AICPA’s annual Government Accounting and Auditing Conference planning committee, Randy regularly presents on technical topics at the AICPA’s Government and Construction conferences. Randy belongs to the Associated General Contractors of Colorado, Colorado Government Finance Officers Association, and Construction Financial Management Association. He chairs the United Way of Weld County Board and is past president of the University of Northern Colorado Alumni Association Board. For the COCPA, he previously served a two-year term on the Board of Directors, as Budget Committee Chair, and as Vice Chair/Chair-elect.

Alicia Gelinas, CPA, is COCPA President and Chief Executive Officer. She leads a staff of 15 professionals in delivering services and carrying out the COCPA’s mission to help people thrive personally and professionally through service and connection. Alicia’s professional background includes stints in public accounting, teaching, and consulting. She first participated in Society activities as a student member before assuming the Chief Financial Officer role, ultimately becoming the CEO in September 2022.

Jim is passionate about supporting the CPA profession and helping his peers embrace technology to prepare for the ever-changing landscape of business and automation. He has focused his entire career, spanning more than twenty years, on integrating technology into strategic plans and business processes alike. Jim is experienced in forming a variety of business entities, business expansions, divestitures, mergers and acquisitions, and business closures. He is a founding member of the COCPA Technology Users Group and recently served on the AICPA Certified Information Technology Professional Credential Committee. Jim currently serves on the AICPA COVID Technology Committee. He is eager to provide guidance on the importance of CPAs to be more adaptable and pivot toward new concepts, technologies, and client needs.

Ron has been employed with the same firm, MGPM, PC, since 1987, becoming president and managing shareholder in November 2017. Ron specializes in preparing tax returns for corporations, S corporations, partnerships, individuals, trusts, and estates, and in providing advisory, accounting, and auditing services to not-for-profits, governmental entities, and small businesses. Many of his clients are in the agriculture, real estate, wholesale, governmental, and not-for-profit industries. He is part of the firm’s technology advancement team charged with keeping the firm on the forefront of technology. Ron previously served on the COCPA CPE Board and as an Educational Foundation Trustee, and is a past president of the Southeast Chapter. Passionate about wildlife conservation issues, Ron serves on the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Sportsperson’s Roundtable, Arkansas River Habitat Partnership Program Committee, Fisher’s Peak State Park Planning Committee, and the Colorado Parks and Wildlife State Wildlife Area working group.

Dave is a Principal in the Complex Financial Reporting practice at Opportune, where he is primarily responsible for assisting clients with financial reporting for oil and gas operations. He is among the country’s foremost experts on the reporting for asset retirement obligations (ARO) and the standardized measure of oil and gas (SMOG). Dave and his team developed and now implement Opportune’s proprietary Assent 143 (ARO) and Assent Leases software applications. Before joining the firm, he spent 14 years in public accounting, where he managed audit engagements in the energy and software industries. He has also served as CFO of an INC 500 software company. Dave is a frequent speaker on oil and gas reserves, financial reporting, networking, ARO, leases, and SMOG. He serves on the board of the Rocky Mountain Victim Law Center, a Denver-based not-for-profit. Dave graduated from the University of Denver with a BSBA in Accounting.

Amy started her career in human resources in 1998, holding a variety of progressively responsible positions within higher education HR administration. Most recently, Amy served as Senior Vice President/Chief People Officer at the largest Colorado non-profit healthcare system, where she was responsible for articulating a vision for human resources that translated strategic priorities into operational imperatives and advancing the ongoing evolution of human resources to an integrated and strategic model. Amy has her own consulting business that focuses on executive, career, and life coaching as well as HR consulting, helping organizations, both existing and start-ups, with human resource operations.

Leveraging more than 30 years of accounting experience, Heidi has led teams in public accounting, industry, and government, most recently at Denver International Airport, where she is Director of Accounting. Her diverse career serving public and private organizations, as well as working in government, lends to her broad understanding of how leaders in the profession can make a difference across a wide range of industries and organizations. Heidi has served on numerous COCPA conference planning committees and recently completed her term as Chair of the CPE Board. As a COCPA Board member, she looks forward to helping the Society innovate and develop its educational benefits and services as the profession evolves, as well as enhancing member value through relevant, timely, and accurate content and resources.

Interspersed with stints in public accounting, where she worked as a Senior Auditor, and industry, where she worked as a virtual Chief Financial Officer, Alex has served the City of Pueblo as both CFO of the Pueblo City-County Library District and, since September 2022, as the City’s Director of Finance. One of just six 2022 AICPA Outstanding Young CPA Award recipients nationally, Alex is also a 2019 AICPA Leadership Academy graduate and recently completed her term as Chair of the COCPA Young Professionals Council. Alex is passionate about community service, serving in leadership roles for the Junior League of Pueblo, the Southern Colorado Runners Club, the Pueblo Downtown Association, and others. She has been recognized as a CPA Practice Advisor 40 Under 40 Accounting Professional, a 2019 COCPA Everyday Heroine, and a 2021 COCPA Women to Watch Emerging Leader.

Tiffany’s love for accounting, combined with an entrepreneurial spirit and an enthusiasm for computers and technology, have driven her success as a full-time employee, long-term consultant, and small business owner. After 13 years as principal of her own small firm, Tiffany joined Wipfli LLP, where she ascended to Senior Manager in the Client Accounting Services department.  Currently, she is taking time to reflect on her more than two decades in the accounting profession and focusing efforts on her next endeavor. In addition to holding her CPA license, this Regis University graduate won the Regis Award for Excellence in Accounting in 2011. She serves as Chair of the COCPA Young Professionals Council, where she puts to work her talents for building relationships and facilitating engagement among younger members of the CPA community.

Sam is the retired Principal of CherisLaw and a member of the American, Colorado, and Aurora Bar Associations; Chair of the Investment Committee and member of the Budget Committee and Board of Governors of the Colorado Bar Association; Vice President of Littleton Town Hall Arts Center; Program Manager for the USA Fencing Leadership Academy; and President of the Legal Commission of the International Fencing Federation (FIE).